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GodisanAtheist

GodisanAtheist

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Stopped by the semi-local microcenter today and picked up a PC Reaper 9070xt open box that they had for $602. This is the most I've ever spent on a video card ever, in my entire life but by modern standards in both the new and used market, the thing is a steal (esp. given I snagged my 6800xt used 3+ years ago for $450 all in).

I was really hoping to switch back to Nvidia this round, I've gone back and forth between the brands every upgrade cycle with the exception of one of the first (GeForce 2 MX200 to a GeForce 4 4600ti wayyyyyyyy back in the day) but good lord Nvidia options are sofa king out of touch expensive for similar performance... I assume simply due to feature and mind share dominance.

So for the second time in my life I am upgrading from the same brand to the same brand.

Everyone wanted $550+ for their 4070ti Supers or $450 for their 4070's... Even 7800xt seemed to command $400+ pricing which was ridiculous IMO given what I paid for my 6800xt.

They also have ASRock Challengers for $599 brand new, but I've always been a little skeptical of ASRock as a brand (not entirely fair) and lawd the card is ugly (also not fair, it would be in my case the whole time and I'd never look at it but still).

Anyhow, putting the card through it's paces on 3DMark purely for stability testing purposes, and will download and run more graphically demanding games after I wrap up DOW2 Retribution to see how the thing does in the "real world".

So far so good though *knocks on wood*.
 
Nice. I was thinking about upgrading a couple of the computers in my house but.... nope. Not any more. I think you got a decent deal considering today's climate though.

Kid is still rocking an old AMD 5600XT - but he has a job now and doesn't care about graphics, like... at all. He would play on a potato and be happy. I don't get it. Wife has a newer 3060RTX and could use an upgrade - but she doesn't really play with graphics options or anything and whatever the game defaults to is almost always how she'll play through it. Sometimes that's ok, sometimes that gives me a headache from across the room with the FPS drops and tearing.

Myself, still on a 3080RTX and happy with it, so not looking at upgrading my main rig yet. But most of what I play is older and I'm ok with adjusting a few settings down here or there to get a steady, decent frame rate.

All our computers are still on DDR4, but did get up to Zen3 series AMD CPUs in all of them.

It may just be a year of monitor upgrades... and that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Anyhow, putting the card through it's paces on 3DMark purely for stability testing purposes, and will download and run more graphically demanding games after I wrap up DOW2 Retribution to see how the thing does in the "real world".
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Only issues I've seen have been the OEMs being too aggressive with clocks, and that crashing newer games (see: BF6), and people trying to undervolt and then encountering instability later on.
 
Yeah, I really only upgraded after taking a look at part prices due to AI and deciding I'd rather pick something up now in the event that consumer GPUs experience another long drought a la mining than wait and potentially end up with even more expensive cards or having my 980ti finally crap out on me.

When I picked up my RX 6800xt back in 2022 (right after the bubble popped deflated) my 980ti already had 6 years under its belt.

RX 6800xt has been a real workhorse, but it's weakness with RT is starting to show a bit in newer games where turning RT off significantly reduces image quality because devs have stopped putting in the work on the Raster side of lighting and the visual gap has actually grown from early RT games not because the RT is better but because the Raster is worse.

Anyhow, I just downloaded Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider as my 9070xt burn in games (newest and best looking games I own) :p
 
Have fun with the card. Talking more current gen I went from a 2080, to a 6800xt to a 7900xtx to... nothing... no price point that would be an upgrade makes sense. And AMD either smartly or not didn't bother to release a replacement fort the 7900xtx so here I sit as prices soar.
 
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